The judge had read out the charges to Zaheera on the last occasion and explained the accusations against her and other members of her family.
P C Pandey was the Ahmedabad police commissioner during the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.
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The affidavit had detailed the carnage and named some of the accused in the Best Bakery case.
Zahira alleged that Setalvad had amassed huge wealth by illegal means.
The petition mentions that the scope of inquiry of the Banerjee Committee "extends to more than two states."
It suspects Narpatsinh Patel, Head Constable of Randhikpur outpost, of tampering with evidence in a gang rape case during the post-Godhra riots.
In Mumbai court, Zahira and her two brothers turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case saying that they did not see the mob setting the bakery on fire.
It took exception to the delay in appointment of a public prosecutor in the Best Bakery case trial.
The Supreme Court has put a question mark over the role of state police in the Naroda Patiya riots case. \n
Any judicial pronouncement on Narendra Modi's alleged involvement in the post-Godhra riots should be accepted and should not be questioned further, according to a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party.
He wanted the money the latter had received as compensation in the aftermath of the post-Godhra communal riots.
They are the last of 20 people facing charges in connection with the rape and killings that followed, to surrender or be arrested.
Nasibullah, brother of prime witness in Best Bakery case Zaheera Shaikh, on Thursday retracted his police statement.
Bilkis, whose cross-examination was concluded on Thursday, had earlier identified in the court the 12 accused.
The Commission, comprising Justice (retd) G T Nanavati and justice (retd) K G Shah, on Thursday summoned her after it heard an application filed by her advocate Atul Mistry.
Under attack from rivals over the "puppy" remark, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said all forms of life are valued and worshipped in Indian culture, in an apparent bid to assuage feelings of the Muslim community.
The committee, which began its probe on April 6, has been entrusted to find out in four months who was telling the\ntruth -- Zahira or Teesta.
I A Syed, a Gujarat policeman, was arrested on Friday for allegedly suppressing and destroying evidence in the gangrape and massacre case during the post-Godhra communal riots.
The ruling came on a CBI plea that the district court in Ahmedabad did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
A Magistrate court in Ahmedabad is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on Zakia Jafri's petition against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team which had probed the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's role in the post-Godhra riots in 2002.
According to a survivor, there were at least 18 people on board the state transport bus.
"He [Vajpayee] did not do anything effective. I had sent him letters. I had talked to him directly," Narayanan said in a freewheeling interview to Congress MLA P T Thomas carried in a recent issue of Malayalam magazine Manava Samskriti.
Forty residents of the Ahmedabad society, including former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsaan Jafri, were killed in the post-Godhra massacre.
Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said the Congress could consider extending support to the Third Front or taking its help, if necessary to form the government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP leader from Bihar sought to compare his defeat in Kishanganj LS seat to that of Congress' Buta Singh after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
If the absconding jeweller is traced in Britain, the extradition request to the UK government could follow a similar course as the case of embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya
Additional CBI Director P C Pande is under scrutiny in connection with his role as Ahmedabad police commissioner during the post-Godhra riots.
"Through an advocate based in Rajkot, I have also sent the names and details of the seven accused persons I witnessed killing my husband, brother-in-law and a local priest," Naseembano Chauhan said.
The video was shot by cameraman Gautam Chauhan, who has already deposed before the court.
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